Explanation and Linguistic Change Hardback
Edited by Olga Fischer, Frederike van der Leek, W. F. Koopman, Roger Eaton
Part of the Current Issues in Linguistic Theory series
Hardback
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This volume presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Amsterdam in 1985, on the nature, even possibility, of explanation in Historical Linguistics: why changes take place and others do not, and why they occur at a particular time and place.
The workshop, and this volume, aim to explore questions such as i) are the factors which explain the actuation of a change different from those that explain its implementation?; ii) is it possible to give a typology of changes?; iii) should linguistic explanation hope to meet the same requirements as explanation in the pure sciences?; iv) are all linguistic changes necessarily the product of variation?; v) should there be a formal theory of change apart from a general thoery of grammar?
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:308 pages, black & white illustrations
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:01/01/1986
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- ISBN:9789027235398
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:308 pages, black & white illustrations
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:01/01/1986
- Category:
- ISBN:9789027235398
